adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a benevolent manner; with benevolence.

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1532.  Elyot, in Gov. (1883), 77. It pleasid you so benevolently to remembre me.

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1543–4.  Act 35 Hen. VIII., xii. His subiectes … most willyngly and beneuolently … do remit … the same summes of money.

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1779.  Sheridan, Critic, I. ii. (1883), 156. A debt benevolently contracted to serve a friend.

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1879.  Sat. Rev., 5 July, 21. He was benevolently engaged in making catches [at cricket].

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